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after be required of him by law, and to be recorded in the office
of said clerk.

368. Xhe said clerk shall renew said bond at the same time
and under the same penalty as are prescribed for the clerks of
the Circuit Courts.

Clerk of Circuit Court of Baltimore City, and of the Circuit
Court Number Two of Baltimore City.

369. The Clerk of the Circuit Court of Baltimore City, and
of the Circuit Court Number Two of Baltimore City, shall
respectively enter into bond to the State in the penalty of
twenty thousand dollars, conditioned for the faithful discharge
of his duties, with security to be approved by the Judge of
said courts.

Salaries of Clerks of Courts.

370. Whenever the fees or other compensation of any of
the clerks of the courts of Baltimore City shall, after the pay-
ment of all necessary expenses, fail to pay such officers the
salary provided for by the Constitution, and any of said clerks
shall, under section 1st, Article 15, of the Constitution, have
paid to the State any sum of money as excess, after retaining
his salary, such excess is appropriated to the payment of the
salary so in arrear until each of said clerks shall have received
the full amount thereof; and it shall be the duty of the Comp-
troller of the State to draw a warrant upon the State Treasurer
for the payment of said arrears out of the said excess, not to
exceed the whole amount so in arrear, and not to exceed the
whole amount of said excess paid into the treasury of the
State.

371. The Comptroller of the State of Maryland be and he
is hereby directed to draw a warrant upon the State Treasurer
for the payment of the sum of twenty-five hundred dollars per
annum in each and every year, in quarterly instalments of six
hundred and twenty-five dollars at the end of each and every
quarter, for the compensation of the trust clerk designated by
the Supreme Bench of Baltimore City in the offices of the Cir-
cuit Court of Baltimore City and Circuit Court No. 2 of Balti-